PREFACE.
Having been an invalid from infancy she has, since that event, given way to a dreamy lethargic state of existence, under which her infirmities have increased so rapidly that only a short time is likely to elapse before she will be placed by the side of her little idol.
Her talent had hitherto been unknown or unrecognised. Being of a timid and retiring disposition, with a great propensity for secretiveness,
